When a former Bais Yakov girl meets the perfect frum gentleman, she finds herself struggling with personal boundaries and wonders about her choices.
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Part of the Plan
“We can feel sad, but not bitter or angry; that's for people with no aibishter,” they said, as my brother’s dead body lay nearby, still warm.
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Teacher of the Year
A Chumash teacher encounters an old acquaintance among the parents of her young students.
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Black And White Nights
A yeshiva boy's Tel Aviv adventure promises everything he was looking for, but leaves him with more questions than answers.
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How They Got Here: No. 4
Peruse Unpious search terms and commentary. This week featuring brotherly love and shaitel fetishes.
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Our Last Twelve Hours Alive
What would you do if the world was ending in twelve hours?
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Skin is Skin
A Muslim doctor reflects on her father’s anti-Semitism and her love for a Jewish classmate.
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Movie Star Fantasies
Life has a funny way of weaving itself together, with mirrored ribbons reflecting themes over and over again, flashing mirages of past experiences, unexpected reminders of things long gone.
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Goodbyes
Last night was the first night of our experiment. I was to stay at our new apartment, a small place that hasn’t been renovated since 1973 and probably last cleaned only shortly after that (we don’t plan to move…
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A Meal of Fat Ox
Jonathon caught a stream of the sticky cream running down my pinky with his finger. My skin tingled at his touch. Fiction by A.M. Yehuda.
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Green Tuesday
Chaim Mayer’s mother usually calls in on Thursdays to remind him to pick up the lokshen kugel for Shabbos, or of a family member’s shulem zucher, which s’volt gepast that he attend.
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The Departed
A report on the Footsteps organization and the lives of those who leave the ultra-Orthodox world. Article by Orli Santo.
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Article on Jacob Gluck of Hasidic Williamsburg Tour and Unpious contributor Yakov Yosef.
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Profile of Brooklyn's Shomrim patrol groups, featuring Luzer Twersky. To read some of Luzer's essays, click here.
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An interview with Samuel Katz about his journey into the secular world. To read some of Samuel's essays, click here.
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From Tablet: A former Hasid moves to hipster Brooklyn. But what he gains in nightlife, he loses in camaraderie.
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